Good Friday, April 14th….Go to Hell!
Yep after the exhibit we did in fact go to Hell – I’ll explain in a couple of lines.
The LOTR exhibit at Te Papa was freaking amazing –
here is the front of the meuseum with the banner for the exhibit.
They have a miniture or manequette in the main entry:
it’s the corsair that Aragorn captured with the army of the dead.
Here we are infront of it
When I go back I’ll take more pictures of the boat – the details are outragous! Unfortunatly its the only part of the exhibit that we could photograph. The rest of the exhibit was strictly no pictures allowed. SUCKS!
Anyway – they had a huge amount on display – costumes for Legolas, Gimli, Gandalf, Saruman, Arwen, Strider, a miniture hobbit costume, the King of Rohan full armour, tons of the weapons and armour used in the movie – costumes/armour for all races in the movie from the southern warriors to the Urk Hai. They have samples of the plastic hand crafted chain mail availble to touch. They have the weapons (which I loved) on display. Lots of original pencils by Alan Lee, acrilics and scene lighting boards by other artists on the film. They had videos of never before seen interviews and documentaries accompanying various exhibits. They actually displayed the full miniture of Minis Tirath – amazing (easily the size of half of our house and about 2 stories tall)! There was also the full miniture of Osgiliath and the tower of Mordor (also huge). Oh – and they also had all the villians as well!! The Nazgul rider costume was pretty freaky in person! If this exhibit ever comes to Denver we are going!
They also did this perspective movie magic thing – we had a good time with it:
We spent about 4.5 hours in the exhibit – it was so much fun!
After the exhibit we decided to make a trip to Hell (just cause it was Good Friday, and we were hungry). Hell is a pizza place in Hataitai (and I guess a chain located all around NZ).
There is Racshmi and Carrie outside of Hell
There is the 3 of us standing in the street getting ready to go to Hell
Rashmi took some great pictures of the inside of Hell –
Here is me with the man
and a picture of the pizza box
Pizza was great – I think we will go again!
Tags: Wellington
abe_wick
April 18th, 2006 at 10:23 am
Abe, Very cool and I am very jealous of you bing able to go to the LOTR museum. Jones went nuts when she saw Erin, imagine what she will do when you get home. Sunday was fun, and thanks for the great NZ gifts1 love ya, mom